Japanese Politicians' Logic on Why Recovery Is Slow: It's Because of the Constitution Imposed by the US!

A group of politicians headed by the very person (Yasuhiro Nakasone) who was instrumental in introducing the nuclear energy in the post-World-War-II Japan has declared that the slow recovery from the March 11, 2011 disaster is because of the Japan's Constitution.

The Japanese Constitution was drafted by the officers at GHQ under General Douglas MacArthur and translated into Japanese and enacted in 1947. Hawks like Nakasone have been itching to scrap the Constitution that has "the Article 9" (renunciation of war).

From Jiji Tsushin (5/1/2012):

復興遅れ、憲法に原因＝超党派議員

Slow recovery stems from the Constitution, says a nonpartisan group of politicians

　超党派の新憲法制定議員同盟（会長・中曽根康弘元首相）は１日、都内の憲政記念館で「新しい憲法を制定する推進大会」を開いた。現行憲法が縦割り行政の温床になっているとの観点から「東日本大震災からの復興の遅れの根本原因は現行憲法にある」として、改憲に向けて国民的議論を盛り上げていくことをうたった決議を採択した。

The Alliance for Enacting the New Constitution, a nonpartisan group of politicians headed by former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone met in the Parliamentary Museum on May 1 to promote the enactment of the new constitution. The group sees the current Constitution as a hotbed of the vertically segmented administrative system. It passed the resolution declaring "The fundamental cause of delay in the recovery from the March 11, 2011 disaster is the current Constitution" and that the group would promote the national debate toward constitutional amendment.

The group like this, or the one headed by the boy-wonder mayor of Osaka City, do not want to amend the Constitution. They want to ditch it completely.

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